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He was admitted to
Trinity College
,
Oxford
,
29 Jan. 1579/80
at the age of 16 (he is not the same as the
ThomasSalusbury
who is mentioned by
Foster
,
Reg. of Adm. to Gray's Inn
, under the year
1573
; cf. also
D.N.B.
). After some time at
Oxford
, he joined the service of the
earl of Leicester
, his guardian and
patron
, and while in
London
appears to have become a
Roman Catholic
; about
1580
he joined a group of lively young courtiers who favoured the cause of
Mary
,
queen of Scots
.

Early in
1586Salusbury
and another
Welshman
,
EdwardJones
of
Plas Cadwgan
near
Wrexham
, came
under the influence of
AnthonyBabington
who was plotting to murder
Elizabeth
, release
Mary
, and set her on the throne. The plot was disclosed to the authorities and
Babington
was arrested at the end of Aug.;
Salusbury
succeeded in escaping to
Cheshire
where, however, he, too, was arrested a few days later. He and the other conspirators were arraigned before a special court at
Westminster
,
13 Sept.
, and
Salusbury
was found guilty of intending to raise a rebellion in
Denbighshire
should
Babington
's plot be successful. In spite of his strenuous denial that he had any desire to murder
Elizabeth
, he was
executed
21 Sept.
to the terror and great grief of his family and his other friends in
Denbighshire
.

Salusbury
had m., at the age of 10,
Margaret
, daughter of
MauriceWynn
of
Gwydir
, his mother's third husband.
Lleweni
passed to his brother,
SirJohnSalusbury
(d.
1612
)
.

Sources:

Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
and the authorities mentioned therein;

Foster
,
Alumni Oxonienses
;

D. Mathew
,
The Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe. A
study of the Celtic and Spanish influences on Elizabethan
history
(1933)
, 64-8;

A. H. Dodd
,
English Historical Review
,
1944
, 354-5;

John Williams
,
Ancient and modern Denbigh a descriptive
history of the castle, borough and liberties with sketches
of the lives, character and exploits of the feudal
lords
(Denbigh, 1856)
, 166-7.